How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors features everything you need to know about adding sizzling sexual tension, scorching sex scenes, and emotional impact to your romance writing in twelve info-packed essays from bestselling and multi-published authors – so you can get published and get paid. HowToWriteHotSex.com

Whether you’re writing sensual, steamy, or full-on explicit sex scenes, writers can learn from the authors who write and sell sexy books for a living. Do you want to write erotica? Or an erotic romance? Perhaps you just want to add some hot sexual tension to your romance novel.

This is the book for you.

Here you’ll find essays on the art of writing smokin’ hot vanilla sex, gay sex, BDSM, kink, and ménage, as well as essays on how to find paying markets and publishers for your books and short stories.

How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors gives you all the information you need to write sex well and get published!

Featuring the following multi-published authors’ essays:

L.K. Below – The Law of Attraction

Christine D’Abo – Boys Will Be Boys: Writing Male/Male Romance

Kate Douglas – Writing the Fine Line Between Erotica and Porn

Delphine Dryden – So You Think You Can Kink?

Shoshanna Evers – Getting Published

Desiree Holt – Five Sexy Senses to Rev Up Scenes

Jean Johnson – Biology: The Good, The Bad, & the Sex Scene

Isabo Kelly – Fighting Sex

Cara McKenna – Real Ugly

Giselle Renarde – How To Write Convincing Fetish and Niche Market Sex

Charlotte Stein – Sexy Sentences

Cari Quinn – Rx for a Sagging Sex Scene

The contributors are published with the following
NY publishers, small presses, and e-publishers:

How to Write Hot Sex is a #1 Amazon bestseller in the Authorship, Erotic Writing, and Romance Writing categories, in addition to hitting the Writing Skills bestseller list and the Kobo Publishing bestseller list.

In 2014, there will be How to Write Hot Sex workshops based on this book at the Romantic Times (RT) conference, as well as at the Romance Writers of America (RWA) National Conference.

This is the introduction to HOW TO WRITE HOT SEX

How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors features everything you need to know about adding sizzling sexual tension, scorching sex scenes, and emotional impact to your romance writing in twelve info-packed essays from bestselling and multi-published authors so you can get published and get paid.

Whether you’re writing sensual, steamy, or full-on explicit sex scenes, writers can learn from the authors who write and sell sexy books for a living. Do you want to write erotica? Or an erotic romance? Perhaps you just want to add some hot sexual tension to your romance novel.

You’ve come to the right place.

Here you’ll find essays on the art of writing smokin’ hot vanilla sex, gay sex, BDSM, kink, and ménage, as well as information on how to find paying markets and publishers for your books and short stories.

So what are these gals gonna teach you? We’ll start this book off with erotica extraordinaire Cara McKenna, who also writes for Harlequin Blaze as Meg Maguire. Her essay Real Ugly will show you how to craft realistic, gritty sex scenes that will raise your prose above “steamy” to “unforgettable.” Then we’ve got the award-winning, prolific Desiree Holt. How prolific? Desiree recently released her one-hundredth book. Now that’s what I call multi-published! She shows you how to use all five senses to bring your romance novel to life in Five Sexy Senses to Rev Up Scenes.

By now you’ve probably heard of the huge market for male/male erotic romance. Interestingly, the readership for these stories is mainly straight women. Christine D’Abo teaches you how to cash in on a hot sub-genre with Boys Will Be Boys: Writing Male/Male Romance. Then L.K. Below dissects sexual tension in The Law of Attraction. With her advice, you’ll learn how to make your character’s attraction to each other come alive off the page as the sparks fly.

Bestselling Kensington author Kate Douglas (Wolf Tales) discusses Writing the Fine Line Between Erotica and Porn. By infusing your stories with emotional impact, you’ll always have a love story you can be proud of—no matter how explicit or graphic your sex scenes get. You’ll learn How to Write Convincing Fetish and Niche Market Sex from one of erotica’s bestselling LGBT authors, Giselle Renarde. Not sure what all those initials stand for? No worries—Giselle will walk you through the writing process she’s perfected over the years in the niche sex erotica market. You won’t believe some of the things that could get you on an editor or reader’s naughty list. At least you won’t be making those mistakes after reading her essay!

Then we get back to the basics with Amazon bestseller Charlotte Stein, who breaks down how to use varying sentence structure and wording to bring your Sexy Sentences from drab to fab. Even the hottest story idea won’t sell if it’s not written well, so heed Charlotte’s advice to take your writing to the next level—the level agents, editors, and readers need to see. You can also learn a lot about writing a good sex scene by studying the way fight scenes are written. That’s right, fight scenes, like sex scenes, can add levels of intensity and emotion to your stories. Award winning multi-published Isabo Kelly shows you how in her essay Fighting Sex.

BDSM erotica is hot—hot to read and hot to sell! Delphine Dryden asks So You Think You Can Kink? After reading her essay on Domination and submission in erotic romance, you’ll be answering hell yeah I can kink! Then we have New York Times bestselling author Jean Johnson, whose essay puts you directly in her classroom as she stands at the podium and plays sexy professor for us in Biology: The Good, The Bad, & the Sex Scene. Learning how our bodies physically and mentally become aroused will give you the tools you need to write hot sex with confidence.

But what if you’ve written a sex scene, and something’s just not right? Enter USA Today bestseller Cari Quinn and her Rx for a Sagging Sex Scene. You’ll be able to diagnose an ailing scene and make it exactly the way you need it to be after reading her essay. Lastly, I’ve contributed an essay on Getting Published. In 2010, a year before this book you’re reading first came out, Shoshanna Evers didn’t exist. In the space of one year I had twelve books release with four different publishers, plus my own self-publishing. I became an Amazon Bestseller with my self-published work, in fact. In the span of one year I went from not existing to leaving my job as an RN to write full time. Now, as of this 2014 updated edition, I’m thrilled to add six books published with Simon & Schuster Pocket Star and the title New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author to my name, all thanks to my amazing readers.

If it can happen to me, it can happen for you.

Many authors dream of signing with a literary agency but don’t know where to begin—so I decided to share the query letter that snagged my first agent’s attention! Everything you need to know about the process of getting published is here. Whether you’re hoping to land an agent and multi-book contract with a big New York publisher, write for some of the fabulous electronic publishers, or self-publish and take control of your own publishing destiny, I’ll walk you through the steps.

How to Write Hot Sex was originally published in 2011, and has been updated for 2014. The updated ebook will be available for free to anyone who purchased the original ebook on Amazon. The main changes include the author bios and links, and Shoshanna Evers’s essay Getting Published. There are other minor changes throughout. Since this is mainly a craft book, the advice remains the same for all of the essays except for Getting Published.

Readers: if you take a photo of your previous paperback edition of How to Write Hot Sex and email it to me at shoshannaevers@gmail.com, I will provide you with the updated ebook at no cost! Same goes for previous ebook copies — copy/paste proof of purchase (or a pic of the ebook on your ereader), for a FREE updated copy!